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OECD Review of Fisheries: Policies and Summary Statistics 2015

The OECD Review of Fisheries provides information on developments in policies and activities in the fishing and aquaculture sectors of OECD countries and participating economies, mainly for the period 2012-13. This year’s edition includes Argentina, the People's Republic of China, Chinese Taipei, Indonesia and Latvia.

Part I overviews the activities in the sector and includes a chapter containing two-page snapshots outlining country summary statistics and key developments in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors. Additional country-level data and detail on institutional and policy backgrounds, based on contributions by participating countries and economies, are provided in the electronic version of this report.

Chinese Taipei

To help improve the sustainability of the fishery, the total number of large-scale tuna longliners larger than 100GRTs has been reduced from 614 to 418 by 2013. To protect sharks, Chinese Taipei promulgated the “Regulations on the Disposal of the Fins of the Shark Catches of Fishing vessels” and the “Regulations on the Imports of Shark Fins” in 2012.